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The book club was founded in 2017 and centers books with women-led narratives Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Reese ...

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June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.